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YescomUSAExpands to 16 Global Marketplaces With ChannelAdvisor
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From its website, you wouldn't know that YescomUSA began solely as an e-retailer of cell phone accessories. Since 2002, the Chinese company has grown its online business to be a one-stop shop for everything from patio umbrellas to musical instruments to treadmills and more. Today, the brand sells into the U.S. with close to 3,000 SKUs targeting both B2C and B2B small businesses across marketplaces.
YescomUSA began its online presence on eBay. But with a focus on profit and gross merchandise volume (GMV) growth, the company began facing difficulty with listing management, order integration and customer relationship management (CRM) within the service department. As consumer preferences changed and more marketplaces sprouted up, YescomUSA realised the difficulty of keeping up with technology updates of each platform on its own.
YescomUSA went in search of a central console that could manage eBay listings across multiple accounts, automate order management and maintain record history for after-sales CRM content. Yet, there were very few systems in China like that at the time.
Based in the U.S., YescomUSA's CEO learned about ChannelAdvisor, leading the two companies to partner in 2015.
ChannelAdvisor had a Chinese team employed in the APAC region, which facilitated business development and customer communication, strengthening the relationship even more.
Today, the company's account operations, marketing and product development, supply chain logistics and customer service teams all use ChannelAdvisor to manage the e-commerce experience with Self-Service Marketplaces, First-Party (1P) Solutions and Self-Service Digital Marketing.
Because ChannelAdvisor is a trusted name throughout the industry, YescomUSA had no problems integrating data and processes across marketplaces.
"Marketplaces aren't concerned about our integration management and efficiency once they realise we're working with ChannelAdvisor," said Mella Yang, Sales Director at YescomUSA.
YescomUSA uses Self-Service Marketplaces to meet all of its marketplace needs, even when it requests additional help or needs to fulfil new requirements. Plus, it has more space and flexibility to use its own data structure across multiple channels.
ChannelAdvisor also improves YescomUSA's efficiency as a team, allowing prompt management of multiple platforms simultaneously. The platform's customisable logic helps the company flexibly adjust various data synchronisations. Instead of updating and uploading data one by one through each marketplace account's backend, ChannelAdvisor allows YescomUSA to update in bulk and improve team efficiency. Further, the company can customise the data to meet the requirements of each marketplace without reentering it each time.
Since partnering with ChannelAdvisor, YescomUSA has grown its e-commerce presence from eBay alone to 16 different channels, including AliExpress, Amazon, Catch.com.au, Facebook, Fruugo, Google, Houzz, MassGenie US, MyDeal AU, Newegg, Sears, Shopify, Walmart, Wayfair and Wish. About 60% of the e-retailer's total sales come from Amazon US. YescomUSA's channel expansion has also helped the brand grow in other markets, including Europe, Asia Pacific; and North America.
Without ChannelAdvisor, YescomUSA believes it would not have been able to expand as far as it has.
"ChannelAdvisor has allowed us to grow to multiple channels and accounts," said Yang. "Without them, we would have a much smaller online presence."
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Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 could launch in October after all
This high-end 8-inch tablet was expected to launch this month, but it looks like it has been delayed and will arrive this fall, most likely in October.
Android Tablet Rumor
Things may get really interesting in the high-end area of the tablet market later this year, as the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 promises to give Apple's iPad a run for the money. This slate has been in the rumor mill for a while, and it has even been spotted at Chinese certification authority TENAA and the notorious Federal Communications Commission in the United States.
The information that made it online so far revealed that Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 will come in two sizes, 8-inch and 9.7-inch. Both will have AMOLED displays with the same resolution - 2,048X1,536 pixels. The processor used will be Samsung's Exynos 5433 clocked at 1.9 GHz, paired with 3 GB RAM. The slates will also have a main camera with 8 MP and 4G LTE connectivity.
While some leaks also mentioned Android 5.0 Lollipop, it would not be a surprise to see the Galaxy Tab S2 announced to ship loaded with Android 5.1 Lollipop, given the estimated launch period. There is no information about the price for now, but there will surely be more leaks until the official announcement comes out.
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Real people doing real things!
The Nambale Magnet School is a residential school for vulnerable children often orphaned by the AIDS pandemic in the Nambale District of the Western Province of Kenya. Evalyn Wakhusama, a Kenyan woman who obtained her higher education in the US, is the founder of NMS and it is her vision that this school be designed and constructed in her childhood hometown in Nambale, Kenya to accommodate pre-school through 8th grade, and provides safe shelter for the vulnerable children in a loving and supportive environment. The school will eventually feature a conventional Kenyan primary educational curriculum along with an artisan program to provide education and training in specified career paths including agriculture and light industry.
Cornerstone's activities include, but are not limited to, raising funds for the Nambale Magnet School. We plan to use the Nambale Magnet School as a prototype for other projects that are financially and ecologically sustainable which will assist the disenfranchised to achieve empowerment in areas around the globe and in the United States. Cornerstone will, in time, include other projects that complement our mission statement in the United States and abroad. Other projects could include assistance with school facilities, foster homes, self sustaining ventures for the education and nurturing of the disenfranchised; particularly, but not limited to, children. Any project taken on by Cornerstone will exercise the greatest limit of environmental consciousness with the commitment to create new, innovative, alternative energy solutions whenever possible.
We have a commitment to self-sustainability, both financially and environmentally.
Martine Nolletti has a background in sustainable design and real estate. She is extremely committed to philanthropic endeavors. Martine has been assisting the Nambale Magnet School since its inception, having met Evalyn Wakhusama when she first came to the USA while earning two advanced degrees at Yale Divinity School.
Martine first volunteered with WIKS USA Inc., another Connecticut charitable corporation that was also engaged in fundraising efforts for the Nambale Magnet School. In addition to fundraising, she also served as an advisor on environmental stewardship, prior to establishing Cornerstone Project Inc.
In 2007, Martine flew to Kenya to join in the celebration of the ground breaking ceremony for the Nambale Magnet School, which served to further deepen her commitment to the success of this project.
Barbara Bourgeois has a background in crisis counseling for children and has been committed to this project from its inception. Her commitment to children has been a constant in all of her pursuits.
Rosemarie Palladino is a graduate of Yale Divinity School. Rosemarie did her undergraduate work in communications arts earning a Bachelor of Arts from the College of Mount Saint Vincent. She is a valued member and brings strong administrative skills to the charity.
Anne Novak is a certified yoga instructor and personal trainer. Anne has consistently conducted numerous yoga workshops to build awareness of and to benefit Nambale Magnet School. Her support of Cornerstone stems from her deep spiritual beliefs rooted in supporting others in need. She has been an ambassador for Cornerstone and continues to raise awareness of this charity.
Cornerstone Project's 501(c)3 tax status as a not-for-profit charitable organization has been approved. Donations to the Cornerstone Project Inc. are tax-deductible.


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POM. Mr Keys, since we last talked in November last year, would you just give me a general overview of the direction in which you think the economy is going? I read in a report just a couple of days ago that the economy appears to be slowing down after a little spurt. How do you see it going at the moment and how does the way in which you see it going affect earlier statements you have made to me like there will be very little decrease in unemployment, if any, between now and the end of the century and it doesn't really make much difference what policies are put in place or try to be put in place?
DK. I wouldn't say it doesn't make much difference, but it doesn't change the order of the problem so in that respect that still represents my view. What's happened with the economy is that it's run up against some of its well known long term constraints, like the fact that we don't have enough foreign reserves to finance an unfavourable balance of payments in the absence of a fairly pronounced capital inflow. We've had our sort of little mini-Mexico on such short term capital as came into this country. Quite a lot of it has left with losses because of the change in the exchange rate, so consequently that has put us out of the favoured areas for putting even short term funds until that experience passes into the statistics and gets forgotten. So we haven't been getting any short term capital to speak of and the long term capital flow that we've been getting has remained at the fairly modest level that it has been at ever since the transition.
POM. This is distinct from foreign investment, this is just capital flows?
DK. Well long term foreign capital includes longer term borrowings and includes direct foreign investment. As I say, both of those have been at a modest level and there has been no change on that side. But the removal of our reserves coupled with the ongoing deficit on the balance of payments has meant that we've had to have very high real interest rates in order to restrain growth in the economy because growth in our economy has this high import content. So here we sit with high interest rates, sufficiently high I think to deter a fair amount of investment from taking place here, and with no real prospect of a change in that situation that I can see.
POM. Why would high interest rates deter investment?
DK. No they're not deterring them. Oh, they deter investment because you can make more money by putting your money in the bank and getting 16% than you can by going in for an investment project. The alternative becomes more attractive. And, of course, to the extent that you want to borrow money to go in for investment the cost of borrowing that money becomes higher. So this is not a new phenomenon for South Africa of course. It's something that used to be a chronic condition really even before the financial sanctions which started in 1986. Countries always run up against the balance of payments constraint and you need a really attractive policy which will successfully attract, let's say, something like 3% of gross domestic product in the form of overseas capital on a regular and a sustainable basis before you can escape from that balance of payments constraint.
POM. Now this isn't helped by the continuing depreciation of the rand?
DK. It is helped a bit by that because in fact that makes more of our exports more competitive and so to that extent it diminishes the deficit on the current account and, of course, it makes imports more expensive and so it exercises a restraining influence on that. Our devaluation from a trading point of view has been quite a good thing because the usual disadvantage of a depreciating currency is that internal inflation leaps up and the benefit is removed partly in the form of higher import prices and partly in the form of higher wage claims and we seem this time to be in the fortunate position where we've had a much greater depreciation of the currency than we would normally have expected, something like 20%, but in fact wage claims haven't reflected that so we're enjoying a period now in which our local costs are lower in terms of world competitiveness and that will last for as long as we can maintain that happy differential.
POM. Is there a new awareness on the part of the trade union movement that there is now real necessity to moderate wage demands?
DK. That's not their official position obviously but I think that underneath that message is going home. Since we last talked we've had the publication of GEAR, the Growth Employment & Reconstruction, macro-economic policy of the government, which has wage restraint as a specific part of the recipe for achieving higher economic growth and starting to reduce unemployment.
POM. How realistic is that plan? It's one more plan that's been put on the table.
DK. It's the first plan issued by any government for a considerable period. During my period we published what we called The Normative Economic Model, which was certainly not a plan. It was simply an illustration of the way in which the economy worked and was likely to work and the sort of things that might make it work better. But this is specific government policy which has been pronounced to be non-negotiable, in other words it's not open to being swayed by the requirements of the trade union federation, COSATU, and it's drawn very favourable comment from people like the IMF and The World Bank and so on and it is a completely market orientated world competitive type of economic policy.
POM. My understanding is that it looks to the private sector as being the driving engine for growth rather than the public sector.
DK. That's right, it doesn't envisage an increase in the percentage of gross domestic product that's taken in taxes and it envisages a continuing decrease in the size of the public sector deficit. Both of these are necessary because, as everyone knows these days, you can't have investment unless you have saving and the government has been the big dis-saver of the past ten years. The government has been using private savings to pay for current expenditure.
POM. Has it been using private savings and foreign borrowing or just private saving?
DK. Well it didn't do much foreign borrowing of course until the transition.
POM. Since the transition?
DK. It's quite modest. A lot of fuss was made about the Deutsche Mark bond and the Yankee bond and this that and the other, the amounts are quite small.
POM. But it's absorbing a large part of domestic savings which are then not available for investment in enterprises here?
DK. Correct. Quite right. The private savings go in the end into government paper and the government spends the money and that's that.
POM. Is it an achievable goal to reduce, I think this year the budget deficit was to be reduced by 1%, is it possible to do this without cutting into social services, laying off teachers, nurses? I think the number of civil servants estimated to be laid off altogether is in the region of 300,000. These can't all be administrators.
DK. It's possible but it's difficult. It's possible to come down to that deficit but it's I would think to some extent part of the baby will have to be thrown out with the bath water.
POM. Part of the baby being?
DK. Services.
POM. Services?
DK. Yes. There will be tightness in the health service. There will be difficulties in the pension side, welfare side. There will be tightness on the education side and so on.
POM. What implications does this have for a government that is so committed to redistribution and to the delivery of basic services to millions of people who have never had basic services before? It looks to me that you're running up against a number of inherent contradictions in how you specify what priorities are and how they can be achieved.
DK. I think what it means is that the reduction in services as far as the white community is concerned will have to be greater and quicker than anyone had realised.
POM. I talked to one of your predecessors the other day, Barend du Plessis. In fact I've talked to every Minister of Finance since Barend du Plessis. You're the only continuous stream of ministers I have. And he said that cutting services to the developed sector, i.e. the white sector, dramatically or in a very obvious way was going to be one more deterrent to foreign investment, that when a foreign businessman came here and looked at the quality of health care available, looked at the education standards available, looked at the crime, he just packs his bags and says, "I can make as good a return some place else, I don't have to live in these conditions." Would you agree again that while you achieve A you make B more difficult?
DK. Yes clearly there is a conflict. All I would say about the question of crime is that on the aluminium side of Gencor I find myself doing business in a number of countries where the crime is worse than the crime here and they don't seem to have any difficulty in attracting foreign investment. Their business community is better organised to take care of itself and to live in secure surroundings, etc., etc. So I am really more inclined to regard this as a transitional adjustment which the business community is going through and making a big palaver about while it's doing it, than as a make or break once and for all sacrifice of foreign investment.
POM. I'll get to that a little bit later. I want to keep to the government's plan. What I hear you saying on the one hand that the necessary reductions in the deficit will have to be achieved in part through the cuts in services, that the brunt of those cuts will have to be borne by the white sector.
DK. It's where most of the spending is even today.
POM. That this will serve as a deterrent of sorts to foreign private investment, that there are other constraints on the economy that limits its capacity for growth at the best of times, and these are just structural features of the economy, they are not going to change in the next five or ten years.
DK. It's a high consumption economy.
POM. So within that framework it would be difficult to attain a 5% growth rate on a sustainable basis?
DK. Yes.
POM. Two, even if you were to achieve a 5% growth rate there is no guarantee that that growth will generate large numbers of jobs. In fact if one looks at the experience in other countries the phenomenon is growth without the creation of jobs or even in countries that do create jobs like the United States they are all being created at the very low end of the scale, not at the middle or even top end of the scale. What kind of paradox does this present the country with in terms of, they reiterate over and over again, "We must tackle the question of unemployment", but it seems to me there is very little in fact that you can do about it?
DK. Yes I think the most helpful way to think about unemployment, and for that matter to think about rates of national growth, is that anything over the 2½% to 3% rate of growth that we are now enjoying, anything over that depends on finding a way for unskilled workers to add value and this is a world-wide problem in terms of the way technology is developed and so on. The unskilled are the core of the unemployment problem in every European country and further afield as far as I know. I haven't been able to think of a way of getting unskilled people to add value other than by what's called sweat investment or sweat equity where you in fact have to organise the people into corps which can be taught to do things like improving community services, building affordable housing and that sort of thing. Now we don't seem to be making any progress in that direction, the whole feeling seems to be against it, and it's a difficult thing to organise. You need a very high level of entrepreneurial competence and you need a pretty good administration if you're going to organise that kind of national effort. Perhaps one should just say something about the unemployment, the unemployment in Gauteng is lower than the unemployment in Europe. The unemployment percentage in the Western Cape is lower than the unemployment percentage in Spain. The big unemployment is in certain areas, in the Northern Province, what we used to call the old Transvaal, and in the Eastern Cape. To a lesser extent in Natal/KwaZulu you have these huge concentrations of population which are really not unemployed within the economic stream, they are really outside the economic stream altogether. If you want to bring the inflation percentage whatever it is, and there's a fair amount of argument about exactly where that percentage is, it ranges between 20% and 40%, but if you want to bring that down by let's say a quarter you've got to take some sort of direct action in those areas and working designing that is hard enough, carrying it out successfully is a major operation. It's not clear to me how we will do that.
POM. Do you think there's also, just as a result of the years of the past, the present, whatever, that there is not a strong work ethic?
DK. That's not our experience in our businesses. We find our labour force is motivatable, it's very interested in participating in decisions and the kind of production that you get in the mining industry, for instance, one would hazard a guess whether there's another labour force in the world which would give you that production under those conditions. So I don't buy the work ethic. I think it's one of these urban myths.
POM. You mentioned something that increasingly intrigues me and that is that we're all part of a global economy, the problems that South Africa faces with regard to employment are not unique to South Africa and one can even in a way look at a smaller paradigm. Take, say, New York City, you have Manhattan and you have the South Bronx and they are two entirely different worlds that co-exist within five miles of each other and no matter what attempts are made to resuscitate the South Bronx they just fail and you're left with this kind of underclass of people that become a permanent underclass while glittering Manhattan continues to glitter. Is that in any way an analogy for what could happen here?
DK. I think we're better off in this way, in that the political picture here for blacks is so much better so that provides an avenue and it provides an interface which hardly exists in New York, apart from the exceptional individuals.
POM. I'm not even saying New York, I mean if you go to London or any major city.
DK. The interface here for black people is a hundred times better than in London because in fact political power resides in the hands of black elected people and you have this interface really down the entire scale. There will always be your underclass of course but there is no reason, I don't see any reason in, for instance, Johannesburg or Gauteng, I don't see any reason why we should have difficulty in carrying the integration process forward.
POM. The integration of?
DK. Black and white communities in the way that you have a difficulty in Brixton, in London for instance.
POM. Even if you were tackling the problem from establishing these corps that you refer to, again these call for resources and again you're talking about primarily the government resources and at a time when you're saying that a necessary part of the package is to cut back on the amount of resources that are in the public sector, so you're running into another constraint.
DK. Well one definition of the economic problem is it's the application of scarce means to abundant ends. It's inherent in life.
POM. So when you look at the government's economic policies what do you think, looking at the short run and the long run, what should be in your view it's major economic priorities in terms of achievability and the production of results in the short run and in terms of structural reform in the longer run?
DK. I can't improve on what they've announced. As I say it's in line with orthodox opinion in today's world. All I can see is that the nature of the unemployment problem and the growth problem demands some more direct action in the area of the army of unskilled than we have up to day. But when I say that I am recognising a problem without advancing a solution.
POM. In terms of direction of resources and recognising that you can't do all things all the time, does the government put more resources into attempting to redress in a major way social imbalances or does it put it into activities that will attract foreign investment or that will continue to decrease the budget deficit making more domestic savings available for investment?
DK. It should try to do all three.
POM. But you can't cut nurses, cut the level of services. You're redistributing downwards, you're redistributing by cutting the sector that's better off.
DK. Correct.
POM. While slowly improving the sector that's very poorly off.
DK. I'm drafting something, I have to address an international advisory council, give them a South African update.
POM. OK just give me the update.
DK. So that's my first heading, and that's my second.
POM. The issue progress continues.
DK. Big issue, progress continues, white dissatisfaction grows. This is what's happening.
POM. Would you talk about each of those, just your thoughts on each?
DK. Well the big issues improving, and I last spoke to this group 18 months ago, but I say the new constitution being on track I think it will be ready in time, I think the fact that the Constitutional Court rejected the first draft is excellent. I think they have demonstrated their objectivity if you read that verdict and their independence. I think the Mandela succession issue is being addressed in terms of his decision to phase out as the head of the ANC ahead of time, next year, and advancing probably Mbeki. The IFP is back in the constitutional discussions. The National Party has left the government of national unity and become the official opposition which is a good thing because they weren't having any influence on policy in the government of national unity. Fringe parties on the left and right haven't gained support, I think that's clear from the local authority elections and the GEAR policy document, that's the macro economic one, is committed to market orientated principles and has drawn favourable comment from the IMF and The World Bank and so on. I'm going to deal with the question then of the fact that white dissatisfaction is growing. It hasn't found a political channel and it may not find a political channel, it may turn out to be a kind of business community thing.
POM. When you talk about white dissatisfaction, could you be more specific?
DK. Sure, the rates, the rates have gone up in Sandton, three times, and the property owners are trying to organise a rates boycott. It was inevitable that the rates in white areas would have to go up substantially. So the schools, private schools, the nearest private school to where I live is saying it will have to close next year because the government subsidy is being reduced by a quarter. As it happens it's a convent with I think 95% black pupils but it's a private school. So in various ways the effects of the change in government are still working through and of course crime is a big factor as well which I will also deal with. But the point that I then want to make is that the world moneyed forces, call them that, it's a bit too grand for what I have in mind, but the world money, if you like, really takes its cue on what it's like to invest in South Africa from the white sector. Now I'm really joining up with what Barend du Plessis said to you. Outside opinion has been sceptical from day one. I've talked to a large number of overseas people over now four or five years and scepticism has been pronounced throughout and that's now being reinforced by this adjustment.
POM. So the scepticism is growing if anything.
DK. It's being reinforced from inside now because of the fact that people didn't realise the extent of the adjustment that would be required. I am sure I've said this earlier on but my verdict after the election was that the whites didn't realise how much was going to change and the blacks didn't realise how little was going to change.
POM. It was my first time last week, after all my years here, of going out to Sandton City. I just wanted to have a look at one more mall.
DK. Consumption temple.
POM. Yes. And one goes to Rosebank and one goes to, say, Sandton, Eastgate, Westgate, Northgate, Southgate, they're packed.
DK. People are consuming. We're the world's champion consumers.
POM. Every restaurant you go into at night any day of the week is doing good business. And places like Rosebank you've got to make your reservation before time.
DK. As you know we have a very unequal distribution of income in this country.
POM. But these are the people that are expressing increasing dissatisfaction but there doesn't appear to be any obvious diminution in the standard of living that they're enjoying.
DK. They may even have stepped up their level of consumption in order to make them feel better, make themselves feel better. The level of consumption is enormous.
POM. So what's the conundrum if you're driving a BMW, if you're financially better off than you were two years ago?
DK. You don't like the risk that flows from the crime side, you don't like the fact that the property that you own is going to be levied with much higher rates. You don't like the fact that your school fees are going up, etc., etc.
POM. What did whites expect to happen?
DK. Don't ask me! I think they expected that their situation would be even better after the transition.
POM. That it would be even better?
DK. I think so. That's the only conclusion I can come to from the disappointment that's now being expressed particularly by people who take life day by day.
POM. How about business scepticism? Does that exist to a similar level?
DK. In the northern suburbs of Johannesburg, in Sandton and so on, there's a sort of prevailing opinion and that affects the husbands. I notice it meeting business colleagues and so on. I am hearing at second hand what my wife is hearing at first hand around the tea tables in the northern suburbs. Life is becoming less certain, standards of medical care, this, that and the other are bound to go down, a whole array of things. As we know from the introductory twenty minutes of this interview it was bound to happen.
POM. Now is the brain drain a significant factor in all of this?
DK. Yes it is particularly for people with young children, they are the most susceptible to doubts about the future.
POM. They are most susceptible to go?
DK. Yes, and South African business executives have generally had quite a wide experience compared with their counterparts in more developed countries where their focus tends to be narrower and only broadens out later in one's career. Our people are quite prized particularly if they have a pronounced skill like operating a furnace operation and that sort of thing so it's not difficult for a South African in his middle thirties to find a job somewhere else.
POM. Is this being reflected in what college graduates are doing?
DK. I'm not really in the picture.
POM. Barend said that the whole Wits class rather than take two more years of compulsory service are going to emigrate en masse, that's the doctors.
DK. I don't know how true that is. The Wits class by now is a pretty multi-coloured affair.
POM. The activities that Cyril Ramaphosa is engaged in with NAIL buying out 48% of Johnnic and similar attempts to organise such enterprises, do you think this will genuinely bring about black empowerment or are we talking about the creation of a black bourgeoisie, a black elite?
DK. Well you can't have the one without the other, you need the elite if you're going to get empowerment so I don't think one should view them as being in opposition to each other. Sure Cyril is part of the elite. I think it's a good deal for the kind of capital that the black interests can marshal at this stage which needs to have a fairly secure return and not be at the high risk end of the risk spectrum. So from that point of view I think it's good and it provides a platform which I think they will probably use very effectively.
POM. But it does nothing in itself to create jobs?
DK. No. That's correct.
POM. In the same way if we come down say two and a half years or three years, we almost now entering the pre-election phase for 1999, again when one looks at the delivery of services, I mean I don't note from trip to trip any substantial progress in the delivery of particularly housing. The housing situation seems as mired down today as it was three years ago and it's probably worse because the rate of urbanisation is simply overwhelming the rate at which new houses are being built.
DK. Yes the biggest single factor holding back housing development is the fact that people don't pay their bills. It's impossible to construct a housing policy if the occupiers aren't going to pay.
POM. And yet the government is not making, despite it's Masakhane campaign, one, two, three, four, I don't know we could be at number eight by now, is not really making ...
DK. It hasn't done the job.
POM. It hasn't done it. So what has to happen in order for that culture to be broken or, again, can it be broken or is it one of those historical legacies that might take fifty years to overcome? It's just, again, a fact of life that you can do little to address despite your best intentions, your best policies and your best pleas.
DK. If you want to make payment for services effective you have to be able to evict, that's what it turns on. You have to be psychologically prepared to evict, which I think probably the government is, but you have to have the administration that can evict.
POM. You think the government is psychologically prepared to do so?
DK. I think going right back to Joe Slovo's time as Minister of Housing, the housing policy that he and his excellent Director General, Billy Cobbett, developed envisaged that communities which didn't achieve a certain level of payment would in fact be red-lined by the government, not by the banks or by anybody else, would simply be red-lined by the government and wouldn't receive any services of any nature. So certainly there was a preparedness to tackle the problem but, of course, again we're back with something, we've got to have the preparedness but then you've also got to have the ability and I don't think at the moment that we're in a situation where the government can evict and make it stick.
POM. When you say ability what do you mean?
DK. You've got to have security forces, you've got to have a level of law and order observation in the community.
POM. Where does this leave ...?
DK. Well it means that the housing problem has to be tackled in the law and order area.
POM. I hear from you both optimism and pessimism.
DK. Join the club.
POM. There are things that have improved and then again there are a host of problems but not unlike a host of problems that other countries face.
DK. We have all the same problems but we have some of them ...
POM. In exaggerated form.
DK. In a worse degree, yes.
POM. When you look at the political development for a moment, the constitution says it shall be a multi-party system. At least to me right now it's very obviously not what one would call a strong, viable multi-party system. You have one dominant party and you have a number of small parties, but essentially one party rules the roost and will continue to rule the roost for the foreseeable future. Do you think that a viable multi-party democracy can develop in South Africa and what must happen for it to develop?
DK. I don't think my opinion is worth much on this issue but I think there will always be interests which need to be represented at the political level which are at present inside the ANC as a matter of convenience but which will in due course not be inside the ANC. The most obvious one is COSATU. I think so far they are coping with keeping the alliance going as the primary objective because they are still psychologically getting rid of apartheid mode but I think in due course when the people start asking what apartheid means or meant I think it won't be possible for them to continue in an alliance, so I think we will see at some stage the formation of a Labour Party and if that were to happen then I would guess that the ANC's vote would drop below 50%.
POM. Yet only 20% of the entire work force of the country is unionised and the number of people belonging to unions is going, as is the trend elsewhere, is going down not up.
DK. But they still have a pronounced effect. The number of Labour voters in the United Kingdom will be very substantially greater than the union membership in the United Kingdom where there has been loss of union power.
POM. At least Tony Blair will hope so.
DK. I think it's likely.
POM. He may not get many union votes.
DK. Those may be the ones he doesn't get.
POM. So you see a realignment coming?
DK. Well that's one realignment that, from my point of view, I can see as possible, but as I say on the political development side I don't think really I have much to offer.
POM. Is a viable multi-party system a necessary pre-requisite for economic development or can it exist ...?
DK. It's not.
POM. It's not?
DK. No.
POM. You would point to?
DK. Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea.
POM. Now you have The World Bank it would seem and the IMF were shifting the goal posts when it comes to making loans and are talking about there must be good governance, there must be respect for human rights, there is the attachment of social and conditions which didn't heretofore exist.
DK. They don't really determine what happens politically.
POM. Do you think that the private sector will contribute, I mean with this scepticism that exists, do you think the private sector will contribute sufficiently to address the structural problems the economy faces?
DK. It's trying to. Bodies like the S A Foundation and so on are trying to find mechanisms so on that level I think it's making an effort and, of course, every individual business is coming to terms with the reality in which it finds itself.
POM. But this phenomenon of white dissatisfaction will spill over inevitably into scepticism in terms of when it comes to making investment decisions that rather than saying well let's invest in South Africa, they might say let's invest abroad?
DK. Well they don't have too much scope for that but it will certainly affect the ...
POM. So if I were to ask you what are the main obstacles, just to list the main obstacles that stand in the way of substantially increasing the flow of foreign investment, of direct foreign investment, what are they and what can be done to address them, of the macro-economic plan, to address them?
DK. Well there's general agreement now that the 8% of GDP that Mexico used to fund its rapid rate of growth, the investment was too high for any country. So you can probably take in about 4% of GDP in foreign capital on a safe and an ongoing basis. The IMF, and I am not disposed to argue with them, the IMF says that we need 25% of our GDP in investment if we want to grow at a rate faster than the growth of population. If foreign investment represents 4% out of the 25% the important thing for this country's economic policy to concentrate on is to get the other 21%. That's the crucial matter. Foreign investment really comes in and rides on the back of a very much more substantial local investment if we're talking about a sustainable economy and the government is perfectly correct in concentrating on trying to get the 21% from local sources effectively harnessed and marshalled. The foreign investment, if we get 21% from local sources, we will get foreign investment. There aren't particular obstacles in its way. I've instanced the fact that we do business in countries where the living conditions aren't as pleasant as they are here for business people and which are enjoying floods of foreign investment.
POM. So what is inhibiting?
DK. The fact that we are not able to generate ourselves a sufficient level of savings to make the investments that are needed to grow this economy.
POM. That savings would come from, again, primarily?
DK. The government cutting its deficit which is dis-saving and from a policy in terms of which we partly continue to encourage saving, which used to take place largely through pension funds, and possibly provide some new incentives.
POM. How important is the first world white sector to this?
DK. It's important, yes. If it's psychologically disaffected then obviously you would need a much higher level of possible gain.
POM. Just two last questions quickly. Is the level of productivity, is productivity beginning to show any improvement?
DK. Yes productivity gains have been quite good in the last couple of years.
POM. The second is corruption. Is too much being made of the stories of waste and abuse and corruption in high places? Is it any higher now than it was in previous governments or is it just more of a story now than it was before?
DK. The honest answer is I don't know but I think the extent of corruption in areas like the police force and so on which is being uncovered now substantially, and it relates to the previous administration and the present one, I think is substantially in excess of what any South African imagined. I don't personally have any indication of corruption by the new elite other than the odd thing that appears in the newspaper.
POM. And the last thing is the HSRC poll that indicated that while for whites crime is the major concern, for blacks by a very large margin jobs were. Now considering the fact that still the major part of crime is committed in black communities does the figure (I think it was 19% listed it as their first concern), did the lowness of the figure surprise you?
DK. Well as I say unemployment is very patchy so it's a question of where the survey was taken. Unemployment isn't a tremendous ...
POM. This was country-wide.
DK. Well was it? I would be interested to know. Did they get representation from the Eastern Cape and the Northern Province to the extent that they should have? Here are your productivity figures. You can see bugger all happening for years and then around 1993 it started to get up and it's going up quite nicely now.
POM. The index in 1993 would have been?
DK. The index in 1992 was 101.4 and it's gone to 104 to 107 to 110 and now half way through the year it's at 112 already, so we are getting productivity here.
POM. OK, thank you.


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Tuckerman lent work to The Universal Exhibition held in Paris, 1867.
Archives of American Art William Conant Church letters, 1866-1878.


Firefighters spent Tuesday morning monitoring hot spots and cleaning up debris at the site. Crews responded to the blaze in the Jordan Ranch Preserve at Sunset View Drive and Sunset View Court at 9:03 p.m. and found four vacant houses ablaze, fire spokeswoman Aisha Knowles said. The two-story houses were next to each other, she said.
The houses were in the framing stage of construction and Knowles said fire officials believe that unless the blaze was sparked by construction, it could only have been started intentionally.


Siddharth Shukla is an Indian model and actor and made his debut in acting in the year 2008. He worked in the serial " Babul Ka Aangann Chootey Na". His acting was critically acclaimed in a television serial "Balika Badhu" in which he played the character of Shiv. No doubt about him that he is a superb actor plus also having extraordinary dancing skills. He also participated in " Jhalak Dikla Ja, Season 6" and proved his undoubted dancing aroma. Recently he stepped in Bollywood with the film " Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhaniya". He was last seen on the shows like " Khatron Ke Khiladi season 7" and "India's Got Talent Season 7". He was the winner of former and hosted the later. Currently, we can see him in the serial "Dil Se Dil Tak" on Colors channel.
Siddharth was born in Mumbai ( Maharashtra ) in year 12-12-1980. Then he did his schooling from " St Xaviers High School, Fort ". He initiated his career with modelling and then declared runner-up in the event " Gladrags Manhunt Show". Later on the year 2005, he also heralded as the best model of the world organised at Turkey. His passion is to watch movies and also a freak to watch fashion shows. He made his appearance in many TV serials and ads. Apart from his dancing and acting skills, he also loves to play football and table tennis and also represented his school in same. He his also passionate about interior designing.
Siddharth is from a Brahmin family and his birth place is Mumbai ( Maharashtra ). His family is basically from Uttar Pradesh ( Allahabad ). He has two elder sisters only. His father had worked with Reserve Bank Of India as an Engineer ( Civil Department ).
The fact is somehow strange about this handsome hunk that he is not in a relationship with anyone. He denies doing so as he says that he can't bear a relationship now and still focusing on his goals. He also says that he is not in a position to justify any relationship now.
Siddharth used to hit the gym at morning as he's habituated to get up early. Moreover, he is addicted to taking low carb diet with a lot of vegetables and protein.
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Michael Scott (born 1955) is an American film director, producer and documentary filmmaker. He is best known as producer and film director for Dangerous Lies (2020 film), Cedar Cove (2013), Trading Christmas (2011),The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (2008) and other films.

Background
Michael M. Scott was raised in Mexico City, Mexico, the adopted son of Winston Scott, a U.S. intelligence officer, and Paula Maev Scott, a native of Ireland. His father, Winston M. Scott (Winston Mackinley Scott) worked for the CIA during the Cold War in Mexico. In 1970, Michael and his brother George were sent to Connecticut. From 1970 – 1973, Michael Scott was a student at Taft School, a preparatory private school in Watertown, Connecticut. Michael Scott is a graduate of the Occidental College.

Filmmaking career
While still an undergraduate at Occidental College in 1975, Scott interviewed Clarence Carnes, an inmate who had done time on Alcatraz and was known to be the youngest inmate in the Federal prison. The interview resulted in documentary aired later on PBS. In 1980s, Scott began to work with Dave Bell Associates production company, where he produced HBO's "Decoys," a documentary about undercover cops in New York City. Scott made his directorial and writing debut with 1983's One Man's Fight for Life, – a story about a school teacher struggling with lung cancer.

Scott is credited as director and executive producer of the Netflix movie Dangerous Lies (2020 film) that premiered on May 30, 2020. In October 2020, the film was nominated for People's Choice Awards in the drama movie category.
Scott's long term relationship with writer David Golden resulted in the spec thriller being picked up as a Netflix Original. Since 1983, Michael Scott has worked with a number of production and entertainment companies including Crown Media, Hallmark Channel, PBS, HBO, Netflix and more. Overall, Scott has over fifty credits as director and producer.

Michael Scott vs CIA
Scott's father, Winston M. Scott, wrote a manuscript about his life titled, "It Came To Little" which was confiscated by James Jesus Angleton, the CIA's counter intelligence chief, shortly after Winston Scott's death in 1971. The manuscript became the object of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that was denied, resulting in a lawsuit filed by Michael Scott (Scott vs CIA). A settlement with the CIA was reached in 1996. Later, Jefferson Morley, a veteran Washington journalist, collaborated with Scott and wrote "Our Man in Mexico", a biography of Winston M. Scott and CIA's operations in Mexico during the Cold War.

Filmography

See also
List of Hallmark Channel Original Movies
List of Cedar Cove episodes

External links
Michael Scott on IMDb

References

Living people
American film directors
American film producers
Occidental College alumni
1955 births

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Top-up fees - Education as luxury
A recent BBC poll of 53 university vice-chancellors reveals that two thirds want the top-up fee cap to be increased from the current £3,000.
More than half of those polled would like the fees to rise to at least £5,000, with some even calling for either a £20,000 cap or none at all. The poll coincides with the government's announcement that fee levels are to be reviewed this summer.
Meanwhile a study by Universities UK (UUK), the body representing university heads, came out last month. Based on interviews with vice-chancellors and official data, it states that if fees were increased to £5,000 a third believe students would not be "put off entering higher education". The report does, however, state that any rise to above £7,000 would discourage students from low-income families. The Russell Group, of Britain's largest and richest universities, and the 1994 Group have welcomed the report, both framing their receptions on arguments around "competing in the international market".
In response, Wes Streeting, the president of the National Union of Students (NUS), said, "In the context of the current recession it is extremely arrogant for university vice-chancellors to be fantasising about charging their students even higher fees and plunging them into over £32,000 of debt."
But there have been serious problems with the position of the NUS leadership on this question. It has failed to galvanise students seriously in a struggle against fees for over ten years. The leadership continues to argue against a national demonstration over fees and has aligned itself consistently with government policy on education and other issues. It should be no surprise that vice-chancellors feel they can speak in favour of increasing student debt.
When ex-education minister Charles Clarke was asked about the UUK report he said the argument about top-up fees had "already been had" and they were a proven success due to the "little criticism" they now receive.
The NUS leadership is responsible for smoothing over criticism of the Labour government. With a recent governance review, which has seriously undermined the democratic structures of the union, the NUS has weakened its ability to lead the mass student campaign that will be needed to defeat the government. How do NUS leaders expect vice-chancellors and MPs to shift if no pressure is put on them?
This is where official NUS opposition to raising the cap, but also failing to oppose fees, is demonstrated as totally flawed. Once the student movement accepts that education is a market, we are opting for a system where profit and commercial value are put well ahead of the quality of education.
The recent wave of inspirational college occupations over the war on Gaza, which saw students in nearly a third of institutions take often successful militant action, shows the potential for also challenging the marketisation of education. It is this sort of pressure which can genuinely determine the future of higher education.
In the engine room
Secondary schooling and the new futures for education
Decolonise education, enrich learning
Simmering anger at teachers' conference
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The city is looking to fill the shoes of former City Manager John Castile.
The city of Greenville has named three finalists to fill the role of city manager from a pool of candidates who are each assistant city managers in southern municipalities.
The position has been vacant since former Greenville City Manager John Castile stepped down this summer.
The finalists are Debra Campbell of Charlotte, North Carolina; Jill Silverboard of Clearwater, Florida; and Bryan Woods of New Braunsfels, Texas, according to Greenville City Councilwoman Amy Ryberg Doyle.
The three will return to Greenville Oct. 17 and 18 to finish the final round of interviews with community stakeholders and the city's leadership team, Doyle said.
Two applicants out of the total of 77 were current city employees. Doyle declined to identify the two internal applicants.
Campbell oversees the planning, transportation and Charlotte Area Transit departments, according to her city bio. Before her current tole, she was the director of a joint planning agency for the city and Mecklenburg County.
Silverboard has served as deputy LClearwater city manager for the past 11 years and was previously city manager for the city of Madeira Beach, Florida. for three years.
Woods was named assistant city manager of New Braunfels last year and was hired in 2014 as the capital programs manager after working for a consulting, enginering and surveying firm.
After 10 years as city manager, Castile stepped down this past summer citing the workload and desire to try something new. Last month, Castile was hired as executive director of the Greenville County Redevelopment Authority.
Doyle said that each candidate for the city manager job provided detailed plans for how to solve the city's pressing issues including transportation and affordable housing.


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Ricardo Antonio Rosselló Nevares dit Ricky Rosselló, né le  à San Juan, est un neuroscientifique, professeur d'université et homme politique portoricain, membre du Nouveau Parti progressiste. Il est gouverneur de Porto Rico du  au , date de sa démission.

Biographie

Jeunesse et formation
Rosselló est le fils de l'ancien gouverneur de Porto Rico, Pedro Rosselló, et de son épouse Irma Margarita Nevares. Il fréquente l'école primaire à Guaynabo. Au cours de ses années de lycée, il est aussi un athlète, trois fois champion de tennis junior et le premier Portoricain élu aux Olympiades internationales de mathématiques. Rosselló obtient un baccalauréat en génie chimique de l'Institut technologique du Massachusetts (MIT), ainsi qu'un doctorat en génie biomédical de l'université du Michigan. En tant que chercheur universitaire, Rosselló s'est concentré sur l'étude des cellules souches.

Carrière professionnelle
Après avoir obtenu son diplôme, Rosselló travaille comme chercheur à l'université Duke. Ses travaux dans le domaine des cellules souches ont reçu de nombreux prix et ont été publiés dans plusieurs revues professionnelles.

Carrière politique
Rosselló prend une part active à la vie politique de Porto Rico à partir de 2008. Cette année-là, son père, Pedro Rosselló, ex-gouverneur, se déclare candidat à la primaire de son parti, le Nouveau Parti progressiste, pour l'élection au poste de gouverneur. Rosselló participe activement à la campagne de son père, qui est finalement battu à la primaire par Luis Fortuño.

En 2012, Rosselló fonde Boricua ¡Ahora Es!, un groupe d'action politique prônant un changement de statut de Porto Rico. Le groupe mène une campagne éducative sur le terrain dans laquelle il suggère qu'une implication internationale est nécessaire pour que le gouvernement des États-Unis puisse prendre des mesures à ce sujet. Boricua ¡Ahora Es! fait campagne lors du référendum sur le statut de Porto Rico en 2012.

Campagne pour le poste de gouverneur

À partir de 2012, Rosselló est mentionné comme un candidat potentiel au poste de gouverneur de Porto Rico pour les élections de 2016. En 2013, Rosselló constitue un groupe de collaborateurs afin de préparer ce qu'il appelle un « plan pour Porto Rico ». Ce plan doit être un cadre aux problèmes économiques et politiques de l'île et, une fois établi des années avant une candidature, représenterait un programme politique plus complet et plus réaliste. En 2014, Rosselló utilise sa plate-forme et son pouvoir de rassemblement politique pour organiser diverses activités de protestation contre les politiques mises en œuvre par le gouverneur Alejandro García Padilla. Certains de ces événements comprennent des marches contre l'imposition d'une taxe sur la valeur ajoutée (TVA). Le , Rosselló confirme son intention de se présenter aux élections pour le poste de gouverneur.

Le , lors de la primaire, il bat le commissaire résident du Commonwealth, Pedro Pierluisi, pour devenir président du Nouveau Parti progressiste et candidat officiel de ce parti au poste de gouverneur.

La campagne dure six mois, durant lesquels Rosselló demande la tenue d'un nouveau référendum sur le statut de l'île. Durant la campagne, il choisit l'ancienne présidente de la Chambre des représentants, Jenniffer González, pour briguer le poste de commissaire résident de Porto Rico à la Chambre des représentants des États-Unis.

Le , il est élu gouverneur de Porto Rico, avec 41,88 % des suffrages face à son adversaire David Bernier.

Gouverneur de Porto Rico

Rosselló prête serment le  comme nouveau gouverneur.

Le , le Sénat de Porto Rico contrôlé par le Nouveau Parti progressiste vote une loi approuvant le référendum pour que Porto Rico devienne un État des États-Unis.

Référendum d'autodétermination
Le , Rosselló signe la loi n 7 pour la « décolonisation immédiate de Porto Rico » qui prévoit un référendum d'autodétermination le  (cependant non contraignant). Les électeurs devront choisir entre l'option de devenir un État américain ou bien le statut de libre association/indépendance. En cas de victoire de la deuxième option, un second référendum sera organisé le  suivant pour choisir entre la libre association et l'indépendance. L'opposition boycotte le scrutin.

Le référendum a lieu dans un contexte politique compliqué, Porto Rico étant toujours lourdement endetté et subissant une politique d'austérité. L'opposition, qui souhaite soit l'indépendance, soit le maintien du statut actuel, boycotte le scrutin, reprochant un vote biaisé et ne pouvant que porter en tête l'option visant à faire de Porto Rico un État américain. De plus, ce référendum est purement consultatif, donc le président Donald Trump n'est pas obligé d'en tenir compte, sans compter que le boycott rend les résultats peu représentatifs. Enfin, le coût de ce référendum est par ailleurs critiqué.

Le statut d'État américain remporte une écrasante majorité des suffrages avec 97 % des votants ayant choisi cette option. La participation est néanmoins très faible, avec moins de 23 % des inscrits ayant voté, à la suite d'un appel au boycott du scrutin par une partie de la classe politique portoricaine.

Gestion des suites de l'ouragan Maria et de la corruption
L'île est déclarée en banqueroute en , ce qui entraîne la fermeture de plusieurs centaines d'écoles publiques. Mais parallèlement, des responsables politiques ont été accusés de corruption. La ministre de l'Éducation et la directrice de la Sécurité sociale ont été arrêtées pour corruption et fraudes aux marchés publics.

En , Porto Rico est ravagé par l'ouragan Maria qui aurait fait 4 645 morts à Porto Rico, même si le chiffre officiel est de 3 000. Toutes les infrastructures ont été détruites. Or, dans les mois suivants, les réparations ne sont pas à la hauteur du désastre et l'île ne s'était toujours relevée de la catastrophe deux ans plus tard. En effet, une partie des fonds alloués à la reconstruction ont été perdus à cause de la corruption. Au total, la justice a ordonné l'arrestation de six responsables accusés d'avoir détourné quinze millions de dollars de fonds fédéraux destinés à la reconstruction après l'ouragan.

De plus, les coupes budgétaires puis l'ouragan ont entraîné un exode vers les États-Unis. Porto Rico a perdu 4% de sa population de 3,2 millions d'habitants entre 2017 et 2019.

Grandes manifestations de juillet 2019 et démission

La fermeture des écoles publiques, la non-reconstruction de nombreuses infrastructures, la corruption qui a aggravé les deux problèmes précédents, et le refus de Rosselló de reconnaître durant un an que l'ouragan Maria avait fait des milliers de victimes rendent le gouverneur très impopulaire. Le , le Centre de journalisme d'investigation révèle 900 pages de conversation entre Rosselló et de hauts responsables locaux sur la messagerie Telegram, dans lesquels ils tiennent des propos sexistes et homophobes envers des leaders de l'opposition, des journalistes et des personnalités publiques. Ceci est le déclencheur de très importantes manifestations réclamant sa démission. Le chanteur Ricky Martin, homosexuel et visé personnellement par les moqueries, devient le porte-parole du mouvement, aux côtés des rappeurs Bad Bunny (qui interrompt sa tournée en Europe pour participer au mouvement) et René Perez ("Residente" de Calle 13).

Devant l'ampleur de la contestation, Rosselló annonce le  qu'il ne briguera pas un nouveau mandat en 2020. Le , des mandats de perquisitions sont émis contre lui et 11 autres membres de la conversation Telegram pour que les enquêteurs puissent avoir accès à leurs téléphones portables. Le , une manifestation réunit au moins  personnes, sur une population totale de l'île de 3,2 millions d'habitants, et bloque la principale artère de la capitale San Juan. Le , dans une vidéo diffusée par le gouvernement, Ricardo Rosselló présente sa démission, effective le  suivant.

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Depuis 2012, Rosselló est mariée à Beatriz Isabel. Ensemble, ils ont une fille, Claudia, née le  et un fils, Pedro, né le .

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